Major Parties Dismiss Cory Bernardi's New Ultra Conservative Grouping

But the Liberal defector is hoping and expecting so much more.

Senator Cory Bernardi's party, the Australian Conservatives, will get the people, resources and infrastructure of Family First.

CANBERRA -- Cory Bernardi's nascent Australian Conservatives party is taking over Family First to strengthen its position and fill out its membership ranks, but the new grouping is already been dismissed as being unlikely to "trouble the scoreboard" and won't change the current make up of the Senate.

But in a likely invitation to fellow conservative politicians George Christensen and Eric Abetz, the Liberal defector wants to more mergers and is encouraging other like-minded politicians to jump ship.

"I hope it is not the last amalgamation," Bernardi told reporters in Adelaide.

"I welcome minor parties, I welcome former colleagues, existing colleagues who want to be part of a team that really genuinely wants to make politics different."

The merger is being viewed as "realignment" or "consolidation" of the political right in Australia, but newly confirmed Senator Lucy Gichuhi, who was elected on the Family First ticket after former senator Bob Day was disqualified by the High Court, will not be joining the merger and will sit as an independent crossbencher.

"For those of us who have been around politics for a long time, we can understand the consequences and implications of significant decisions like this," the Senator explained. "We got our head around it quickly but it is much more difficult for those who are new to the political environment.

"We wish Lucy well on her career."

Pauline Hanson's One Nation remains the main voter attraction in conservative politics, but it is the new grouping's failure to get Gichuhi across the line that has lead to mirth and dismissal by senior politicians from the major parties.

"Well it is a pretty remarkable effort when you have Family First with one Senator, Cory Bernardi pretending he has a party but with one senator and they amalgamate, so one plus one equals one!" Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese told Adelaide radio 5AA.

"It is not a bad effort (laughs) and it goes to Cory Bernardi's remarkable political skills."

KENYAN lawyer Lucy Gichuhi to be sworn in as an Australian Senator after country's High Court confirmed her citizenship. pic.twitter.com/6KKES38cc4

"When Bob Day exited the parliament he was really the father of Family First and obviously (he) had strongly financially backed Family First and when he exited it really was the case that the writing was on the wall for Family First," he said.

"It will be a natural fit with Cory and with his party that he set up."

Day's election was ruled invalid last month after it was found be breached the Constitution by leasing a property he owned to the Commonwealth.